Ghost of Tsushima, a video game produced by Sucker Punch and set in feudal Japan, has managed to rally fans to bring some real help on...
Some temples and shrines in Tokyo now offer multi-lingual fortune-telling paper strips that have something to say about work, studies, travel, love, and even health or...
What was the Toka Ebisu festival like in 2021? Despite this year’s simpler, quiet version, a visit to the festival remains a must for business owners...
What are Japan’s most pressing challenges in the coming months and how will the Suga government respond to them?
To everyone’s delight, a few enterprising Japanese businesses have also hit upon this question and are working hard to bring book and beer cafes into the...
As the Chinese Communist Party approaches its centennial on July 23, 2021, the clash between its repressive values and practices and the freedoms enshrined in the...
People can celebrate the famous annual food festival from their homes. They can order online some of the fan favorite dishes from festival vendors, and have...
Veteran journalists Yoshihisa Komori and Makiko Takita will discuss international relations under the new Biden administration on January 26, at 5:00 P.M. (JST).
A United Nations research institute is being set up in China that will amass and analyze huge amounts of data from around the world on sustainable...
President Xi is building a second Mao Zedong regime, inevitably deepening the confrontation of values between China and Russia on one side, and Japan, the U.S....
The Gunma Crane Thunders, winners of 26 straight games, are the hottest team among the 36 combined clubs in the B. League's first and second divisions.
In the Japanese idiom, ‘the season of politics had given way to ‘the season of economics.’ The political watchwords of 1960s Prime Minister Hayato Ikedawere ‘tolerance...